CANLEY Heights couple are the first in NSW to be prosecuted for keeping sex slaves.
Last Thursday in the NSW District Court Trevor Frank McIvor and his Thai wife Ann Kanokporn Tanuchit, owners of Marilyn's Adult Services, (formerly known as Marilyn's Spa and Sauna) in Ware Street, Fairfield, were each convicted of 16 offences of possess and exercise ownership over a slave.
The charges included causing a person to enter and remain in sexual servitude, taking and detaining a person with intent to obtain financial advantage, causing another person to enter into debt bondage, and conducting a business involving sexual servitude and intentionally possessing a slave.
The pair were arrested on June 2, 2006, after the Australian Federal Police, NSW Police and Immigration Department officers raided the couple's brothel finding four females from Thailand.
Police allege that the Thai women, aged 27 to 44, were found cowering under furniture in an unlit, locked room with no door handles.
Police alleged the women were forced into prostitution and held against their will between May 19 and June 2, 2006.